How to Describe Links between “Objective” Mobility and “Subjective” Mobility? Back to D. Merllié’s Proposal: We propose, like D. Merllié, to study the links between “objective” mobility and “subjective” mobility without constructing an a priori hierarchy of all socio-professional groups or categories. But to avoid the risks of over-interpretation of mean scores, we construct the cross-tabulation between these two mobility variables to analyze it with well known methods such as factorial correspondence analysis, calculations of percentages of optimistic pessimistic optimistic/pessimistic opinions, and even graphic representations.
